At the very beginning there is one question to make sure you are not a computer bot, sorry about that!

First we will ask you some questions about you, to make sure the survey is right for you.

Then we will ask you to tell us your questions about LGBTQIA+ people trying to get pregnant, becoming/being pregnant, giving birth, feeding their babies and the year after birth (including LGBTQIA+ partners and intended parents who are not able to or planning to be pregnant themselves).

Then we will ask you some more questions about your background to make sure we are hearing from lots of different kinds of people.

You can choose to leave your contact details, which will be stored separately from the rest of your answers.

The whole survey will take 15 minutes, or longer if there are lots of questions that you want to tell us about.

You can take some time to think about your questions before you start, and talk to family and friends about it if you like.

You will be able to save your answers and come back at a later time (by pressing “resume later” in the top right corner).

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You can choose to do the survey in Welsh - click “Change Language” on the first page of the survey. Click here to go to the survey.

Click here for instructions if you want to translate into another language

Click here if using a computer or phone to fill out the survey is too difficult (for example if you want to tell your answers to someone on the phone instead). This is only for people who would find it difficult to fill out the survey on the internet. We have limited resources to help people one to one.

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• Lesbian people

• Gay people

• Bisexual people

• Pansexual people

• Transgender people

• Non-binary people

• Intersex people

• Queer people

• People who are questioning their sexual orientation or gender

• Asexual people

• People who identify as LGBTQIA+ and use different words to describe their sexuality or gender identity

• Health professionals looking after LGBTQIA+ people

• Those who care for LGBTQIA+ people in a paid or voluntary way, who may not call themselves ‘health professionals’, for example doulas

• Family and supporters of LGBTQIA+ people

• People who have carried babies, or donated eggs or sperm for LGBTQIA+ people (for example, surrogates)

• People who would like to carry babies, or donate eggs or sperm for LGBTQIA+ people (for example, people who want to be surrogates)

The survey is about LGBTQIA+ people trying to get pregnant, becoming/being pregnant, giving birth, feeding their babies and the year after birth. This includes being intended parents within surrogacy, fostering and adoption. You may not have tried to get pregnant yet but can still take part if you have questions for the future.

You need to live or work in the UK, or have experienced or delivered perinatal care in the UK in the past, to take part.

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Some people who are definitely included, but might worry that they are not:

• You are LGBTQIA+ and have experienced trying to get pregnant without being able to get pregnant

• You are LGBTQIA+ and have experienced pregnancy loss or baby loss

• You are LGBTQIA+ and haven’t yet tried to get pregnant but want to in the future

• You no longer identify as LGBTQIA+

• You are LGBTQIA+ and your partner has experience of trying to get pregnant, being pregnant or giving birth

• You are LGBTQIA+ and have experienced termination of pregnancy/abortion

• You are LGBTQIA+ and have experienced surrogacy (or want to)

• You are LGBTQIA+ and have experienced fostering or adoption of a baby under a year old (or want to)

• You have donated eggs or sperm to an LGBTQIA+ person or people

• Your parent is LGBTQIA+ (and you aren’t)

• Your partner is LGBTQIA+ (and you aren’t)

• You are a surrogate for an LGBTQIA+ person or people​

• Doulas

• Health visitors

• Midwives

• Maternity care assistants

• Neonatal nurses

• Nursery nurses

• Early years practitioners

• Obstetricians

• Neonatologists

• Gynaecologists

• Paediatricians

• Psychologists

• Peer support workers

• Psychiatrists

• Mental health nurses

• Psychotherapists

• Allied healthcare professionals

• Healthcare professional students

• Retired healthcare professionals

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Each question will be checked to see if it has already been answered by research. Questions that have not been answered will be put in order of importance in the next stage of the project. This will be done by LGBTQIA+ people, their family/supporters and health professionals in a follow-up survey and then a workshop. If you want to take part in the second survey or workshop, you can tell us at the end of this survey.

Finally, the top priority questions will be published and we will tell as many people as we can about them to try and make sure that researchers focus on answering those questions, and to help them get funding to do the research. For more information on the end result of a Priority Setting Partnership and its impact, or to see what published questions look like, click here.

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